 Holy Cows & Scapegoats
27 August, 2008
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 Jammu Vs Kashmir
20 August, 2008
New Delhi has a
situation where its carefully crafted notional fabric of
secularism is ready to be shredded into pieces. Jammu wants
to go its own way, and Kashmiris are not stopping it. The
fig leaf is gone. |
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 Olympian Sikh Search
13 August, 2008
The Olympic
mania has affected the Sikhs too. World Sikh News presents
an analysis of the search of a Sikh sports identity,
suggesting a Sikh Olympic meet every four years to nurture
and foster Sikh sports talent. |
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 Alvida Ishmeet
6 August, 2008
Why did Ishmeet
Singh become a phenomenon so quickly? He was destined to
revive the hopes of a community struggling to keep the
Khalsa face in its own homeland. Reportage of homage day. |
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 Environmental
Injustice In Punjab
29
July, 2008
This research piece
by the Malyasian
born environmentalist deplores the degradation
and loot of water on both
sides of the Radcliff line, suggesting
immediate intervention by one and all to save Punjab from
desertification. |
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 India’s
Retail Revolution
23
July, 2008
The Thaw In The Coming
The
unfolding of members of parliament “bought and sold” on the
sidelines as a run up to the confidence vote reduced the
exercise to mere a numbers game involving all major and state
parties. |
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 Fish Justice
16 July 2008
This rare
document reveals the true face of Indian intervention in
religious affairs of Sikhs –in the neo-Nirankari and Sirsa Dera
imbroglios; the meaning of Matsanyaya has been laid bare
by the learned author.
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 Unite
The Million Mutinies
9
July, 2008
Without an
initiative to build an equalitarian world, , it will be
difficult to carry on the diverse, disparate and resources
less struggles, argues the author, stressing that the Sikhs
need to turn towards and egalitarian-emancipatory
orientation of struggles.
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 Sauda Primer
2
July, 2008
If you are befuddled
about the Sikh-Sauda Dera conflict, and want to know how the
Indian government is patronising Gurmeet Ram Rahim, read this
FAQ document on the fraudster pseudo-saint whose tales of mayhem
and murder do not seem to end. |
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 Government of India: Guilty as charged
25
June, 2008
This report of the
Planning Commission of India accepts that poverty creates
deprivation and causes alienation while appreciating the role of
Naxalites in socio-economic reforms and deliverance of
ground-level justice.
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 Identity
Resurgence
18
June,
2008
A Leader Is
Born
India takes pride in
procrastinating burning issues, but the truth cannot be wished away.
Darjeeling is an explosive battle zone these days and the
renewed demand for Gorkhaland shows that the power of an idea is
never lost. |
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 Human dignity and dehumanized politics
11
June, 2008
Politics and
Dehumanization
As the Sikh community
entered the 25th year of Saka Akal Takht, Indian media and state
completely ignored it, but the never-say-die spirit of some luminous
souls shall ensure that our memories are not assassinated. |
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 Living
in Exile
4
June,
2008
Sacrilege versus Sanctuary
Revolutionary
poet and political activist Gajinder Singh
goes down memory lane
narrating
life in exile;
Sikh, Muslim and Christian
political activists demand
right to sanctuary
and sanctity of
religious places. |
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 Dialectics of Dalitism
28
May,
2008
Bechain Hai Yeh
Dr. Sheroaj
Singh Bechain manages to cross the barriers built by Brahman
India and creates a domain for Dalit activist-writers by asking
compelling questions about the politics of knowledge-production
and its role in maintaining the oppressive status quo. |
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 The IPL V/s
BPL India
21
May,
2008
Any different
elsewhere?
The crisis
of farmers is not reflected in the Indian media. There is a
growing disconnect between mass poverty, mass media and mass
reality. The voice of 70 percent of the population makes no news
as the media serves the elite of society.
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 Trading Love Talk
14
May,
2008
The author, who has
been keenly tracking the patterns of civilian discourse between
India and Pakistan, argues that the bonhomie debate has spurred
trade relations and helped underline the massive trade potential. |
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 Lethal Lottery
7
May,
2008
Sikhs and
the Death Penalty
Many
countries
have abolished death penalty, India, Pakistan, USA and China
continues to announce capital punishments regularly, as Amnesty
International pulls up India on various aspects of hanging.
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 Terrorism and Justice
30
April 2008
Coping with fear
What is terrorism?
Who is a terrorist? What gives rise to terrorism? How should
society fight the scourge? There are no easy answers. Muslim
organizations make a determined bid to raise awareness. |
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 Two
World Wars and the Sikhs
23 April 2008
Social scientists claim that in reality, the ethical society is
located in the West, it is time that it pays attention to what
the Sikhs have done for the construction of that part of the
world. |
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 Guru Granth Sahib – The only Sikh canon
16
April 2008
Faith-less
Controversy
There is not doubting that Guru Granth Sahib is the only
venerable Granth for the Sikhs and the only authority to
determine the veracity of the current edition of Dasam Granth is
the Khalsa Panth. |
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 Of Life
in Brahmanical India
9
April
2008
A Life Lived Well and Lessons Thereof
In
his path breaking book on the life and work of Savitribai Phule,
the renowned scholar counts Sikhs as among the communities
oppressed by the Indian Nation State and calls India as "the
most iniquitous society on earth". |
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 The
true story of IPKF in Sri Lanka
2
April
2008
War Clouds in Sri Lanka
Military strategist writer presents a scathing analysis of the
mean efforts of the Sri Lanka government to start another round
of war with Tamils seeking Eelam and traces the role of the IPKF
in Sri Lanka. |
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 Punjabi will not die
26
March 2008
Save Gurmukhi to Save Punjabi
So long
as the Sikhs continue to recite and listen to Gurbani, Punjabi
will stay alive and kicking. If every member of the Sikh nation
resolves to do this, no conspiracy or detraction can succeed. |
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 Guru Maniyo Granth
19
March 2008
Sabh
Sikhan ko Hukam Hai, Guru Maneyo Granth.
The
Panth is vowing to mark 300 Saal Guru De Naal and the
religious fervor is reaching a crescendo... |
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 Pride and Prejudice
12
March 2008
The author outlines steps to meet the challenge from
quasi-judicial film bodies and the vagabond Indian film industry
which is threateningly unsparing to the Sikh image. |
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 A
Cry for Freedom
5
March 2008
Separatism
and terrorism Versus Insurgency and Independence
One man's meat is another man's poison is never truer than in the
case of a new born country. |
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 Revisiting
1984 Times
27
February 2008
An eye-opener for
justice seekers and a reminder of the dark days of the Orwellian
year through voices of scholars, authors, academics, historians,
journalists and victims. |
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 Uprooted
Plantation Tamils in Sri Lanka
20 February 2008
Living in the central hill part of Sri Lanka, Plantation Tamils, as
they are generally called and mocked at as ‘Indian Tamils’, this
community... |
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 On Common Ground Uncommon Diplomacy
13 February 2008
Combat Hate
The open letter
to SALDEF chairperson Manjit Singh applauds the video which
depicts how to effectively... |
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 Are
Kabir And Namdev rewritten
in Guru
Granth Sahib?
6 February 2008
This scholarly piece
effectively debunks the Indian media's soft-pedalling of Sikh
religious.... |
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